W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century

Reiland Rabaka is associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also affiliate professor of women and gender studies and a research fellow at the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA). He is also the recipient of the Cheikh Anta Diop Distinguished Career Award.

Reiland Rabaka is a young, engaged intellectual to be contended with, one with a distinctive cast of mind. His passionate and well-read take on Du Bois will provoke heated debates and fruitful reconsiderations of this towering figure; his conception of 'Africana Critical Theory' will provoke much needed reconsiderations of theoretical tools forged and put to work to produce understandings and emancipatory reconstructions of the life-worlds and life-world situations of peoples African and of African descent. He must be read, and read closely and carefully.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Du Bois and Africana Critical TheoryChapter 2 Du Bois's Concepts of Race, Critiques of Racism, and Contributions to Critical White Studies and Critical Race TheoryChapter 3 Du Bois and the Politics and Problematics of PostcolonialismChapter 4 Du Bois's Critique of Capitalism, Critical Marxism, and Discourse on Democratic SocialismChapter 5 Du Bois and "The Damnation of Women": Critical Social Theory and the Souls of Black Female FolkChapter 6 Conclusion: Du Bois, the Problems of the 21st Century, and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory